If it can take my attendance for me and deal with student Chromebook issues, I’m in. Otherwise, my brain works better.

It’s this form time of year 🤪. It’s been a hard week, but I had positive meetings with the home adults of 21 students tonight and heard that many students are enjoying the class, so that helped. Modified from @RebekahODell1 docs.google.com/document/d/1zA…

Twitter is back on the “discovery-learning-means-letting-kids-figure-out-how-to-read train and Ontario educators and reposting Epoch Times articles, so I think I’m out for a couple of days. 🥴 #onted

I worked in a department store and a lady was upset about the limit on the flyer canned soups so she proceeded to launch soup cans from our soup pyramid at us as we dove into the aisles.

Have you ever ran an activity and it goes so well: high engagement, students who are normally distracted are tuned in. And then you run the same activity in a different class later that day and it’s a chaotic disaster 🤣 (I’m still recovering). #onted

Fellow Ontario tax payers - please like and retweet if you would rather $3.2 Billion be invested in public services, like education, healthcare, ODSP, support for autism families, than be dolled out in one-time $200 pre-election bribes by Doug Ford. #onpoli #onted #cdpoli

Tomorrow I’m tying together the genius of some folks I’ve learned a lot from. Well do some notebook writing with a mentor text (@RebekahODell1), and I saw a good opportunity to bring in values work (Marcus Luther) for students to think about the “messages they live by.” #OntEd

Agreed. I think the "Research Report" is an attempt to generalize discipline-specific writing into a generic form instead of asking students to consider the relationship between purpose, audience and form (I, myself, am still grappling with how to teach this effectively).

I see your noisy water bottles and raise you no-lid slushies in plastic cups the cafeteria sells 5 minutes before lunch ends 🥴.

If you are interested in the many reasons to include daily Independent Reading , this new meta analysis provides evidence that it boosts student engagement AND fosters a love of reading AND supports reading skills. doi.org/10.1177/233285…

What a difference in my 4C class from the start of the semester. From crickets to collaborative planning and idea organization. It’s been a good Friday. #HappyWeekend

Looking forward to presenting with Christine Senior and Tara Armstrong on the Durham District School Board (DDSB) Nov. 15th OSSTF PD day. It will be great to see you sage of 309, especially since I can’t make this year’s Halloween book club!

Leaned into Strand A3 expectations this past week in #ENL1W1. Introduced Find me at @triciaebarvia on all the other apps’s identity-concious response thinking from “Get Free” to go beyond just supporting an opinion and considering how opinions are shaped by experiences and identity. docs.google.com/presentation/d…

Good question.

A student wrote: “In the beginning I did not like talking in large groups, but after learning this is a safe space & my voice can be heard I can speak in class conversations.” (I never claim safe space as I know it’s more than me saying it is). Best thing to hear.

Can anyone point me in the direction of a digital information text that includes or is in graphic/comic form? #onted #mentortexts

Skies are looking bluer elsewhere. I’m hopeful. @mrshackett305 .bsky.social

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Read Matthew R. Kay’s post the other day. The very next morning I had a student usher me over and tell me how they had worked on their poem for their writing project. Kind of a cool moment to not only read the writing, but notice the similarity.

The hardest part about being a teacher isn’t the kids. It’s knowing all the things we should be providing for kids to meet their needs but can’t due to a lack of time, space, and resources. It’s watching vulnerable kids slip through the cracks of a broken system. #OntEd